Taking a moment: Camp Phoenix Chaplain Lt. Col. Stephen Hall reflects by himself after hearing the announcement that Qudrat Wardak had died.

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Soldiers stationed here have had to cope with grief as they've lost friends and other soldiers from Indiana and across America in a recent land mine explosion and helicopter crash. But last week it wasn't an American military death that brought even the toughest-looking soldiers to tears.

It was the unexpected and inexplicable death of 16-month-old Qudrat Ullah Wardak, who died early Friday morning on the mud floor of his parents' tent in a refugee camp. ...